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THE LAW OF MORAL CAUSATION
time, so the stored force of karma will manifest itself at some time or other. Hence it produces some kind of experience at some time or other. The idea of an individual attracting to himself this finer matter and assimilating it with his individuality may be compared to a man who should go into a smoky sootty atmosphere with his body oiled or greased; the grease would form the ground into which the praticles of soot would sink; and if the man did not know the scientific way of removing it from his body, ( by syap and water ) he will have to wait until it wears off naturally; and so with the karma, if he does not know how to scientifically remove it, he will have to wait until it naturally wears off. The way of removing it has been described roughly in the series of lectures on concentration.)
We have in our nature impellent forces which are the ground so to speak on which foreign particles can rest and will be assimilated by the individual. As a magnet among an assortment of metal dust will attract to itself the iron filings, so there is a kind of magnetisin ia the individual which attracts and assimi. lates the foreign particles.
The phi...mpüy of karma may be studied from Points of view different points of view: such as the from which the subject can nature of karwa, the quality, the action be studied. the kind of experience of pleasure or pain which it will give the individual. We may
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